This is Jocco podcast number 171 with echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, echo.

Good evening.

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States

against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same

and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers

appointed over me according to the regulations and the uniform code of military justice

so help me God.

And that is the oath of enlistment that is made by every U.S. military member.

And the other day I was at a charity event for America's mighty warriors, which is an organization

that was created by Mrs. Debbie Momali, the mother of Mark Lee from Task Unit Bruser, who

was the first seal killed in action in Iraq and it was a great event and it was an honor to be there

and I spent some time answering questions from some of the people that had come out to the event

and one of the individuals asked a question about the fact that he had served in the Marines during the 90s

during a time of peace and he didn't go into combat and he didn't go to war and he actually felt guilty about that.

He felt that he hadn't done enough and I told him the truth and the truth is that he had done

what his country had asked him to do.

That's what he had done and if the country had needed him to give more, then he would have given more.

That is what the oath of enlistment is and it's one of, if not the most powerful oath that a person can give

because when you take that oath, if you take that oath, you are putting your country above all else, above your family, above your future, above your life, above yourself.

And with that oath, when you take that oath, if your country needs you to sacrifice, you will sacrifice and if the country needs your time,

you will give it your time and if it needs even more than that, then you will give it even more.

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